I Have Returned!

I'd just like to reassure you all that I'm not dead, just newly resuscitated. It was quite a grueling Christmas for me, I think the busiest I've ever had, imagine fire juggling and plate spinning at the same time and you might come somewhere close. I very stupidly decided to run two market stalls and a a craft shop over Christmas, oh and don't forget making all that stock too; complete insanity. If I plan on having the same lapse in judgement next year I will need to start making my stock in June! So hence the fact that this blog was completely abandoned for the past two months. 

I would have come back sooner after the festive season except I got some really bad news. You know the shop that I spend nearly a year working on, yep that one that was only open for a mere seven weeks? Well it closed on Christmas Eve. Part of the deal that we got always had the risk of someone coming along and renting the space at full price, we just never expected it to happen so quickly. We had great sales for the time we were open, and there was an amazing response from the public; people were delighted to see that kind of shop open at last in Limerick. But sadly after a two day break at home we had to come back and pack up the shop in just a mere few days. To be honest I found the whole process quite heart breaking and wanted to run away from the world. I'm generally not a grumpy person, but I've been no fun to be around the past few weeks. But I've started looking around auctioneers again and we've come up with a couple of promising places to restart the shop again. Next time we will definitely be asking for a minimum contract, we have to safeguard ourselves against that happening again. chin up, onwards and upwards and all that other stuff....

To help myself get back to some level of sanity I started painting again, after the rush for Christmas I didn't have any inclination to make my own crafts, I'm a bit sick of looking at them at the moment. I wanted to make something just for me, that was about selling, or a profit margin, that wasn't commercial, just making something for the heck of it. I spent a couple of days in the studio just painting, with no particular goal in mind, and was really lovely. It gave me the head space to feel positive again, it allowed me the time to blank out the rest of the world. They are both at the early stage, and I'm not sure where I'm going with them, but I like that i don't really care. Here's to feeling sane again!

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